Game-based learning also helps to strengthen the overall training experience by improving the understanding of the subject matter.
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The ludic framework works through rhetorics of play as a frame of reference; rhetorics of possibility and invention as a means of production; the acceptance of transformative failure; and engages with digital communities to further knowledge through social affinity while being grounded in constructionist learning theories.
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Students can work in teams researching subtopics, like water pollution or sea levels, and then select a design tool to use, like Scratch, Gamestar Mechanic, or graph paper and dice for a non-digital game. The event, coordinated by Peg Steffen, who manages the NOAA Games website, offered an opportunity for student participants to work together on climate game prototypes with facilitators and educators.
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NeMO-Net also features an interactive video game by the same name that challenges players to identify and classify images of coral. Interactive tutorials train players on domain-specific knowledge, and the game periodically checks their labeling against pre-classified coral imagery to improve their classification skills, a paper on the project explained.
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The math-based computer games of our youth are just one example of game-based learning, or a course built inside of a game. Gamification uses gaming principles like rewards, badges or peer competition as elements to an online course.
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Virtual reality is a relatively new and emerging technology but it has evolved rapidly within the past few years.
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The Smithsonian Science Education Center has announced the release of Tami's Tower: Let's Think About Engineering, an educational engineering design game that will help teach students how to design a solution to a problem using basic engineering design principles.
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